AI Software Engineer

Senior AI Software Engineer
We are seeking an experienced Senior AI Software Engineer to join a growing AI Enablement team focused on designing, building and deploying internal AI-powered software solutions across a large, complex organisation.
This is a hands-on engineering role where you will work closely with Product Leads, business stakeholders and technical teams to deliver innovative AI solutions that solve real business challenges. You will be responsible for designing scalable systems, integrating AI and Large Language Model (LLM) technologies, and developing production-grade applications that drive measurable business value.
The role offers the opportunity to explore emerging AI technologies, build custom AI assistants and intelligent automation tools, and take ownership of solutions from concept through to deployment and ongoing optimisation.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop and deploy AI-enabled software solutions for enterprise use, specifically using Python. 
• Build and maintain custom AI assistants, generative AI applications and intelligent workflow solutions.
• Write clean, scalable, well-tested and production-ready code following software engineering best practices.
• Lead technical design decisions and contribute to architecture, scalability and system evolution.
• Develop and maintain backend Python services, APIs and microservices supporting AI-powered applications.
• Integrate Large Language Models (LLMs), AI services and machine learning capabilities into production systems.
• Own complex technical challenges relating to performance, reliability, scalability and system integration.
• Implement and support DevOps and MLOps practices to ensure robust deployment, monitoring and optimisation of AI solutions.
• Collaborate with Product Leads and stakeholders to translate business requirements into technical solutions.
• Communicate technical concepts effectively to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Mentor and support engineers, promoting engineering excellence and AI development best practices.

Required Skills & Experience

• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Strong backend engineering experience within complex software environments.
• Advanced Python development skills.
• Proven experience building and deploying production-grade software applications.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, APIs, microservices architecture and secure software design.
• Experience integrating AI, Generative AI and Large Language Model (LLM) technologies into live production environments.
• Experience designing scalable, resilient and maintainable software architectures.
• Strong knowledge of cloud-native development and modern software engineering practices.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and automated deployment processes.
• Hands-on experience with Docker and containerisation technologies.
• Experience working with Kubernetes and container orchestration platforms.
• Familiarity with monitoring, logging, observability and performance optimisation tools.
• Ability to own technical solutions end-to-end from design through deployment and support.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.

Desirable Experience

• Experience with machine learning solutions and ML model deployment.
• Experience with computer vision technologies.
• Exposure to MLOps frameworks and AI infrastructure management.
• Experience building AI assistants, chatbots or agent-based systems.
• Knowledge of cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure or Google Cloud Platform.
• Experience working in Agile software development environments.

We are looking to arrange interviews next week, so should you be interested to find out more please don't hesitate to apply with an up to date CV as soon as possible.